Husking-glove



(No Model.) 7

E. F. RATE.

HUSKING GLOVE.

No. 321,529. Patented July 7, 1885.

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UNtTED STATES PATENT Erica,

ED\VARD F. RATE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HUSKlNG-GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,529, dated July '7, 1885.

(No model.)

T 0 e021 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. RATE, residing at Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Husking-Gloves, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 shows the palm of the glove. Fig. 2, the' back of the glove; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through the palm with the back removed; Fig. 4-, a detail of one of the middle fingers; Fig. 5, a detail of one of the backing pieces of the fingers.

It is customary to make husking and other gloves for heavy manual labor with a support lug-piece on the palm to increase the length of wear, and consequently the durability of the glove, and the practice heretofore has been to make such supporting-piece of a single piece of leather or other suitable material, conforming in shape to the shape of the palm of the glove and extending over the entire palm, which form of construction, while it increases the wearing qualities, decreases the flexibility of the glove, and in many cases makes the gloves so hard as to be uncomfortable to wear.

The object of this invention is to produce a glove possessing all the ad vantages of a double glove without any of the disadvantages of want of flexibility and ease in wearing; and it consists in a glove having the palm, fingers, and thumb provided with backings or supports consisting of a series of pieces secured to the glove by rivets or otherwise, so as to form the wearing surface into divided sections, all as hereinafter more specifically described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents the palm of the glove proper; B, the back; 0, the forefinger; D, the little finger. These parts may be cut in the form of a single blank, as is the ordinary practice in cutting gloves, and the adjoining ends or sides of the palm and back may be secured together by rivets (gas shown in the drawings, orin any other suitable manner.

Eis one of the middle fingers. F is the the back by rivets b,as shown in the drawings, or otherwise, and these fingers are secured to the palm either as shown by the rivets, by which the inner or palm end of the backingpieces .for the fingers are attached to the finger end of the palm portion of the glove,or in any other suitable manner.

G is the thumb,made of asuitable blanlgand secured in the thumb opening left therefor in the blank for the palm and back by rivets c and cl on the side edges, as shown, or in some other suitable manner.

H, H, and H is the backing or support for the palm of the glove. Each of these strips has its forward edge scalloped, as shown, and the rear edge of the strip H, as shown, is ot'a circular form, the rear edges of the two other strips, as shown, being straight. The strip H is arranged on the palm at or near the wrist end of the glove, and is secured to the palm by rivets e in the form of construction shown, and the strips H and H are of sufficient length to extend across the palm of the glove and partly around onto the back on the forefinger side, and these strips are secured in place by rivets e, as shown, or otherwise, so as not to interfere with the break between H and H and between H and H, which breaks produce the flexibility of the glove.

1 are strips or pieces forming the backing or support for the forefinger, which strips, as shown, are cut to extend around slightly onto the back of the finger, and are secured in place by rivets f, three being used, as shown, the one at the end also securing the turned end of the finger, the middle one securing the rear end of the first strip and the front end of the second strip, and the rear one securing the rear end of the second strip to the finger. The arrangement of the rivets is one which does not interfere with the break between the strips which produces the flexibility.

J are the strips for the backing or support of the remaining fingers, two strips being used for each finger in the form shown, and these strips are secured to their respective fingers by rivets f in the same manner as the strips I aresecured to their fingers, except that for the middle fin gers the rear or inner rivets also secure the rear end of the fingers to the tags therefor on the palm portion of the glove.

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K are the backing strips or support for the thumb, secured to the thumb by rivets in the same manner as thebacking-pieces for the fingels are secured in place.

YVhen the parts are together, the strip H overlaps the rear end of the strip H, and the strip H overlaps the rear end of the strip H, and the strip H overlaps the rear or inner piece of the finger-backing strips, as shownin Fig. 3, and the rear backing-strips forthe fingers overlap the rear ends of the front backing-strips, as shown also in Fig. 3, and this arrangement is also carried out in the backing-strips for the thumb.

As shown,the rivets have projecting ends to form a rough surface, such as is required for use on husking-gloves; but for other gloves the face of the rivets could be left smooth.

As shown, the rivets which secure the backing-strips for the middle fingers in place also furnish the means of connecting the edges of the blanks which form these fingers.

The several strips H H H, which form the backing or support for the palm of the glove, overlap each other, and between each strip a break is formed which allows of-the easy opening and closing of the hand in use, and the strips I and J, which form the backing for the finger portion of the glow on theinside, also overlap each other at their adjoining ends and form overlap or underlap, the first section of the overlap strips for the palm forming breaks to facilitate the opening and closing of the fingers, and as these pieces which form the backing are each in effect separate one from the other, great flexibility is produced and the same time the backing or support furnishes as great an amount of wearing surface as is furnished where such backing is made of a single continuous piece. By making the backing of overlapping strips as shown waste pieces can be used to great advantage, thereby greatly cheapening the cost of manufacture, and at the same time the gloves so made possess greater Wearing qualities than where made of two continuous pieces, as at the point where the greatest wear occurs three thicknesses of wearing materialis formed by the overlapping of the strips.

The sectional backing-strips can be secured in place by other means than rivets; but in all cases the strips must be so secured as not to interfere with the breaks between them and destroy the flexibility secured by such breaks.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. A glove having its palm backed or supported by a series of overlapping strips, substantially as shown and described.

2. A glove having its palm and fingers backed or supported by overlapping strips,

substantially as shown and described.

3. A glove having its palm, fingers, and thumb backed or supported by a series of overlapping strips, substantially asshown and described.

EDW'ARD F. RATE.

lVitnesses:

O. W. Bonn, ALBERT H. ADAMS. 

